Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent in charge of Donovan's confirmation check, told him that White House Counsel Fred Fielding had called and told Adamski that "the White House wants [the investigation] over with." Picardo's word is unverified, and Fielding last week again denied he had interfered with the Donovan probe...
That ability to probe deeply into an employee's physical nature has provoked sharp disagreement between corporations and some labor unions, physicians and scientists. Companies say the information helps them decide whether a worker should be kept away from potentially hazardous materials. Opponents charge that genetic testing can be used to shift blame for occupationally related illnesses away from the employer and onto the ailing employees. Some critics also worried that the tests may lead to unfair discrimination in hiring...
Federal Investigators are not yet certain why Fred Furino, 52, an important witness in Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe into Donovan's alleged ties to the Mafia, was murdered. His decaying body, with at least one bullet wound in the head, was found in a car abandoned in New York City. A career gangster, Furino had been intensively questioned by Silverman's investigators and called before a federal grand jury hearing Silverman's witnesses. The investigators suspect that other mobsters feared that Furino had been cooperating with federal officials. Furino may not have been...
...investigator, of course, contends that Donovan has had anything to do with violence. But the murder of Furino does suggest that certain racketeers consider the Donovan probe a most serious matter. TIME has learned that some of the mobsters involved in the Donovan investigation are also named in a 1980 FBI report on the "Provenzano crime group." The 60-page document was used by the FBI to place a court-sanctioned wiretap on telephones available to Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamster boss and Mafia captain, in California's Lompoc federal prison...
...hearings. "The judgment was made that we should not volunteer information," said Webster. At one point during the hearings, Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah asked about a Manhattan grand jury that was investigating Masselli. Francis Mullen, who was then executive assistant director of the FBI, indicated that the probe involved a different case...